Both of my parents are on facebook, which is not an issue for me. Actually, a whole lot of my rather large (extended) family is on facebook ( Read more... )

My parents sent me a cookbook that deals with food allergies in a package along with birthday presents. Yesterday I made Shrimp Creole, which was delicious, so I called my parents to tell them that ( Read more... )

me: ...I was telling my mother that the manuscripts I was working with [for my MA thesis] were defective Mandevilles. The I had to explain that there are several textual variants, and the defective one means that a section of the Travels somehow got dropped from the narrative. And then she said, "The Defective Mandevilles would be a really great ( Read more... )

More news in cooking adventures: success! Xanthan gum did indeed keep this batch of chocolate chip cookies that I made with gluten-free flour mix from melting all over the place like the last batch. So, yay ( Read more... )

Happy Easter ( Read more... )

It's close to the end of term, and so everyone in my department is getting close to having breakdowns, because we're all giving presentations and scrambling to write our papers. (I have presentations this Wednesday, next Monday, and the Thursday after that, and my papers are due April 19, 21, and 27 ( Read more... )

Dad, to my mother: You need to tell her about the doctor ( Read more... )

I told my parents that they should start watching Merlin, and they have. So tonight I got a phone call ( Read more... )

I decided to clean my desk today, mostly to get rid of all the papers that I accumulate. Besides finding a lot of drawings that I needed to stick in my notebook, I found some more quotes and observations!While going to Moravsky Krumlov on a field trip to see Alfons Mucha's cycle of paintings called "the Slavic Epic" we saw a pheasant run across the ( Read more... )

My students seem to think that this is the best news story of the year, because two of them came to class with it prepared as their current event for the week, and the rest of the class flipped. I think it's just because it's about pirates. Which, obviously, doesn't get into the news very often. Also, the fact that the captain of the cruise ship ( Read more... )